Rainforest Vocabulary

Fill in the blank: The wide variety of living things on the Earth is called ____.

• biodiversity

• ecology

• evolution

• habitat

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.5.4B

Fill in the blank: Someone who studies plants is called a ____

• botanist

• zoologist

• geologist

• astronomer

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.5.4B

The way that an animal hides itself by changing its body shape or colour to blend into its surroundings is called ____

• camouflage

• mimicry

• migration

• hibernation

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

Fill in the blank: The tallest full layer of trees in a forest is called the ____.

• canopy

• understory

• forest floor

• shrub layer

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

A gas that is released when fuel burns and when animals breathe, and is absorbed by plants, is called ____

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

• nitrogen

• hydrogen

Fill in the blank: The weather and temperature usually found in an area over a long period of time is called ____.

• climate

• weather

• forecast

• humidity

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Fill in the blank: The very top of a tree is called the ____.

• crown

• trunk

• roots

• branches

Fill in the blank: The destruction of trees over large areas is called ____

• deforestation

• afforestation

• reforestation

• urbanization

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

Very tall rainforest trees that rise above all the other trees around them are part of the ____

• emergent layer

• canopy layer

• understory layer

• forest floor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

Fill in the blank: Rainforests that grow near the equator, where it is very warm, are called ____.

• equatorial

• tundra

• boreal

• temperate

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4